The dark tunnel that the U.S. economy has entered began to look more and more like a black hole recently, sucking in lives, fortunes, and prospects behind a Potemkin facade of orderly retreat put up by anyone in authority with a story to tell or an interest to protect – Fed chairman Bernanke, CNBC, The [...]
January 23rd, 2008 | James Howard Kunstler | 8 comments | ContinuedArchive for James Howard Kunstler
(born 1948) is an American author, social critic, and blogger who is perhaps best known for his book The Geography of Nowhere, a history of suburbia and urban development in the United States. He is prominently featured in the peak oil documentary, The End of Suburbia, widely circulated on the internet. In his most recent book, The Long Emergency (2005), he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society and force Americans to live in localized, agrarian communities.
U.S. Election Campaign Could Expose Frightening Realities for America
At the beginning of the month, CNN was frantically advertising a set of “live” debates between the presidential candidates – Democrats Sunday and Republicans Tuesday, with loads of “color commentary” before and after. This big media show was staged in New Hampshire, whose once-significant early primary election has been reduced – like so much else [...]
June 21st, 2007 | James Howard Kunstler | 0 comments | Continued
Post Peak Oil: Effects on the Stock Market and World Economy
Whenever somebody complains about “the lies that George Bush & Co. told to get us into the Iraq war” (as Frank Rich did in The New York Times recently), I wonder how those lies compare to the lies that the American public tells itself every day – for example, that America could get along without oil from [...]
May 10th, 2007 | James Howard Kunstler | 4 comments | Continued
Oil Futures Bidding To Heat Up As Energy Crisis Looms
Oil ended 2006 roughly where it began, at just over $60 a barrel. This reassured the public that all talk about Peak Oil was hysterical blather from a lunatic fringe. It was reinforced by the publication of the mendacious Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) report issued this fall – a tragic document put out by [...]
April 19th, 2007 | James Howard Kunstler | 4 comments | Continued
Energy Indepence and the New Congress
The Democrats won big in the United States mid-term elections. But do they have what it takes to make the drastic changes that are really important to America…our push toward “energy independence” chief among them?
November 17th, 2006 | James Howard Kunstler | 0 comments | Continued
